![]() ![]() ![]() Announced or likely sportsbook partners include BetMGM, DraftKings, FanDuel, William Hill, TwinSpires and Penn National’s Barstool Sportsbook. Some of the state’s six commercial casinos have already secured partnerships or plans for retail and online sportsbook launches by this fall. If all 60 licenses are awarded, Maryland would have nearly triple the number of online sports betting options currently live in New Jersey, the national leader in average monthly handle. Maryland will allow as many as 60 online sportsbooks, the highest cap of any jurisdiction in the country. That includes every neighboring jurisdiction: Virginia, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Delaware. Maryland joins more than two dozen states that take sports bets now or have passed laws to do so. Hogan’s signature - an inevitability given the lopsided legislative support - formalizes the fifth state to pass legal sports betting in 2021 following South Dakota, Wyoming, New York and Arizona. Regulators must approve further rules, then select and license each sportsbook, but officials hope the first books go live before September. Maryland sportsbook operators had already started prepping launches even before lawmakers passed the sweeping sports betting bill with huge bipartisan margins in April. The bill passed as an "emergency" allowing it to take effect as soon as it was signed. Larry Hogan signed his state’s online and retail sports betting law Tuesday, the final formality ahead of an anticipated launch by fall 2021. ![]()
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